A Good Life in a World Made Good: Albert Eustace Haydon, 1880-1975

ISBN-13: 9780820481104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 312 str.

Peden, W. Creighton

Opis

This intellectual biography reveals Albert Eustace Haydon s growth from a pre-scientific Christianity to a scientific study of religions in light of evolution and pragmatic philosophy. Replacing G. B. Foster in comparative religion at the University of Chicago in 1919, Haydon became one of the most important figures in the development of humanism as a religious movement in North America, providing leadership in the writing of the first Humanist Manifesto in 1933. Today Haydon s writings remain a most important interpretation of religions from a humanist perspective. This work will be valuable to classes which deal with philosophical, religious, social, and intellectual thought in North America since Charles Darwin."

O autorze

The Author: W. Creighton Peden is Callaway Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Augusta State University and is President of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought. Peden received his B.A. in Sociology from Davidson College, his M.A. in Theology and his B.D. in Divinity from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from St. Andrews University, Scotland. Peden is the author of Wieman's Empirical Process Philosophy (1977); Whitehead's View of Reality (co-author with Charles Hartshorne, 1981); The Chicago School: Voices of Liberal Religious Thought (1987); The Philosopher of Free Religion: Francis Ellingwood Abbot, 1836-1903 (Lang, 1992); and Civil War Pulpit to World's Parliament of Religion: The Thought of William James Potter, 1829-1893 (Lang, 1996).